News
AWMM Kīngitanga exhibition to increase
Māori sovereignty movement understanding
Museum Store Sunday 25 November – MSAANZ
US MSA & UK ACE lead global celebration
$500m Australian War Memorial expansion
to honour recent & past conflicts
Syria’s National Museum in Damascus
– reopening ‘a return to normal life’
Dead Sea scrolls forgery casts
doubt on the Museum of the Bible
Rio Museum & Bolsonaro “It caught fire
already. What do you want me to do?”
MoMA donor requires recontextualisation
“American art rather than tribal art”
Academic journal publishing an outrageous scam
– why do academics put up with it?
Tutankhamun – AM EIS for $57.5M expansion
– bracing for ‘nine visitors every minute’
New RM for WAM’s Goldfields Museum
Cara Haymes successful in national search
QM & German CNH reveal private Museum
Godeffroy spider collection’s history
Te Papa internal Collections Review Panel
positive & supporting collaboration
Tim White, Dir, Collns & Research, Peabody
“NZ’s collns in good hands” at Te Papa
National child abuse apology:
Morrison to commit to museum of remembrance
Rotorua Museum restoration architect
appointed & last taonga placed in storage
Te Papa’s Sarah Farrar moving
new Head, Curatorial & Exhibitions Auckland AG
Nigeria’s Benin Dialogue Group 3 yr schedule
to display looted objects from Europe
SAM’s world of discovery
Discovery Centre & Wunderkammer
Sydney’s botanic gardens 5.8 M visitors
& $320M benefit (+ new $60M herbarium)
Maat lighthouse heritage catalogue
delivered by Friends project & MMAPSS funds
LA Times Tasmania as a Cabinet of
Curiosities in MONA, TMAG, MMT
Museums really don’t want to lose money
New report on exhibitions in America & Europe
AM Whales Tohora exhibition – research
evolution, biology & conservation
BCAR paper Cultural & Creative Activity
in Australia 2008-09 to 2016-17 released
Australia Council new CEO Adrian Collette
enters arts funding fracas
Humboldt Forum
A New Museum opens old wounds in Germany
Island Story: Tasmania in Object and Text
TMAG objects testimony to beauty & terror
AWMM’s draft annual plan 2019-20
presented to community for comment
Decolonising the museum round-up
Howarth on decolonising the museum mind
DCMS moves forward with Mendoza Review
Museums Action Plan outlines steps